1. Communities of practice Etienne Wenger Jean Lave Community of Practice: Learning, meaning and identity (Wenger, 1998) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Lave and Wenger, 1991)

2. Theory of Learning. Situated Learning Applications as theory of knowledge management

3. Learning is identity formation through social participation “Communities of practices are – groups of people (communities) who – share a concern or a passion (domain) for – something they do (practice) – and learn how to do it better – as they interact regularly.”

4. Why/how it seems relevant to my work? 1.Conceived from anthropological studies of apprenticeship as a learning model 2.Describes the fluid and dynamic nature of Informal learning communities (as seen in gaming, anime cons, MOOCS and unschooling) 3.The model applies to informal and formal communities – can bridge informal and formal learning – “learning is ubiquitous in ongoing activity, though often unrecognized as such” (Lave 1993: 5). 4. Embraced by workplace (business & government)

5. Questions /next steps 1.Vigotsky? 2.Where in the research cycle? – Descriptive (What’s Happening?) – Causal Relationship – Mechanism Many different domains 1070 hits for empirical studies published in 2013 Time for metaanalysis for the theoretical claims?